Emerging fiber laser technologies are expected to make significant market progress in sensing and healthcare, while innovations in laser welding and 3D printing mean that material processing remains ...

Quantum dots with precise crystal growth and advanced processing enable compact, energy-efficient, and cost-effective light sources for optical fiber communications. (Nanowerk News) The National ...

Australian-US team says wavefront-shaping of input light lifts power threshold for SBS scattering by an order of magnitude. Optical scientists have found a new way to significantly increase the power ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

The trend of ever-increasing data center traffic has pushed for more efficient I/O links. Silicon photonics is a promising route to enable communication in the optical domain using fiber links. Si ...

Moonquake sensing could move into a new phase as fibre-optic technology is adapted for use on the lunar surface. The Moon, often perceived as still and unchanging, continues to experience internal ...

Thanks to a Moore’s law rate of improvement in the bang-per-buck of GaAs diode lasers, cleaning and heating join a growing ...

At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, ...

Optical scientists have created a high-power 'Star Wars' style-laser, boosting their use in defense and for remote sensing applications. Optical scientists have found a new way to significantly ...

A telecommunications engineer in Spain has experimentally developed various fibre-optic sensor networks for the remote monitoring of large infrastructures. Specifically, she has managed to develop the ...